In 2008, three veteran spirits executives teamed up to launch the Last Drop Distillers Limited, an independent bottling company that finds and releases rare whiskies that have inexplicably languished inside the warehouses and cellars of revered distilleries. The firm’s first offering, a 1960 blended scotch found within three sherry casks at the back of Auchentoshan’s […]

After being distilled in a wood-fired copper alembic still in 1950 then aged in French oak for 60 years, the casks of this rare eau-de-vie were recently discovered outside the city of Cognac. Most of it had evaporated, but there was just enough to fill 478 bottles. Each has been sealed with wax and placed […]